othercredit

othercredit — A person or entity, other than an author or editor, credited in a document.

Synopsis

othercredit ::=

One of:
- Sequence of:
  - personname
  - Zero or more of:
- Sequence of:
  - orgname
  - Zero or more of:
    - affiliation
    - email

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes:

Exactly one of:
- class (enumeration)
  - “copyeditor”
  - “graphicdesigner”
  - “productioneditor”
  - “technicaleditor”
  - “translator”
  - “indexer”
  - “proofreader”
  - “coverdesigner”
  - “interiordesigner”
  - “illustrator”
  - “reviewer”
  - “typesetter”
  - “conversion”
- All of:
  - class (enumeration)
    - “other”
  - otherclass (NMTOKEN)

Required attributes are shown in bold.

Description

DocBook allows you to directly identify authors and editors. The othercredit element provides a mechanism for identifying other individuals—for example, contributors or production editors—in a similar context.

Processing expectations

May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Sometimes suppressed.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

class

Identifies the nature of the contributor

Enumerated values:
“copyeditor”	A copy editor
“graphicdesigner”	A graphic designer
“productioneditor”	A production editor
“technicaleditor”	A technical editor
“translator”	A translator
“indexer”	An indexer
“proofreader”	A proof-reader
“coverdesigner”	A cover designer
“interiordesigner”	An interior designer
“illustrator”	An illustrator
“reviewer”	A reviewer
“typesetter”	A typesetter
“conversion”	A converter (a persons responsible for conversion, not an application)

otherclass

Identifies the nature of the non-standard contribution

Parents

These elements contain othercredit: authorgroup, bibliomixed, bibliomset, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info).

Children

The following elements occur in othercredit: affiliation, email, orgname, personblurb, personname.

Examples

 1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
   |<info>
   |  <title>Example othercredit</title>
   |  <author>
 5 |    <personname>
   |      <firstname>Norman</firstname>
   |      <surname>Walsh</surname>
   |    </personname>
   |  </author>
10 |  <othercredit>
   |    <personname>
   |      <firstname>John</firstname>
   |      <surname>Doe</surname>
   |    </personname>
15 |    <contrib>Extensive review and rough drafts of Section 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5
   |    </contrib>
   |  </othercredit>
   |  <biblioid>5</biblioid>
   |</info>
20 | 
   |<para>…</para>
   | 
   |</article>